Urbicide

Sociologist Joshua Murray explains how capital manufactured the Detroit auto industry's long decline - as managment of the Big Three adopted anti-union policies that hamstrung production and flexibility in the face of Japanese and European competition - and why we miss the truth about the story when we believe class warfare is only waged against capital.

Josh is co-author of the paper "Collateral Damage: How Capital’s War on Labor Killed Detroit" for the journal Catalyst.

Historian Nancy MacLean examines the libertarian right's revolutionary plan for America - from an ideological capture of think tanks and the Republican party, to its blueprints for a society stripped of social programs and remaining democratic influence over capital - and explains why we're in the middle of that plan, and how we could see its devastating endgame in a constitutional convention.

Live from Athens, cultural activist Tasos Sagris discusses the political and social work of anarchists in austerity-era Greece - to provide support and mutual aid to the victims of capitalism and war, to defend the people from fascist and state violence, and to build and occupy the framework for a new, horizontal society, against capital, and for each other.

Anthropologist Nazia Kazi examines the modern mechanisms of surveillance and policing turned against Muslims in America - from the bipartisan growth and maintenance of Islamophobic policies for half a century, to liberalism's attempts to divide Muslims against each other, and towards service of America's racial and imperial order.

Writer Peter Moskowitz explores the legal and corporate mechanisms of gentrification in American cities - as a class project between the government and capital that empties neighborhoods of the poor and working class - and calls for a politics that finally addresses housing as a human concern, not a matter of speculation and profit.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen thinks but doesn't say a lot of things about violence after that shooting up of Republican baseball practice the other week, from the warm-up possibilities of swinging a rifle in the on-deck circle, to the realities of martyrdom for the GOP senators before they finish their divine task of mass killing via health care legislation.